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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mr. Whist who wrote (297985)	9/18/2002 5:19:44 PM
From: Les H	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

There's also the transfer pricing scheme by subsidiaries of foreign corps whereby they recognize no taxable profits on sales in the US. That was estimated at 100-125 billion dollars. Did they also not repeal the tax credits for large pharma in locating manufacturing facilities in Puerto Rico? They can always make the threat of reform since it forces the special interests to cough up money to kill legislation. Telecom dereg reform has come up several times since 96, a very effective means of fundraising for congressmen.